We're back to 1789. The French practiced an uncommon lot of euthanasia back then, and carried the severed heads away in big baskets.
And more so, they pioneered a scarcely recognized first in genocide, erasing some 600,000 Christian men, women, and children in a state sponsored program to rid France of pesky Catholic Christians. It happened mostly in the western parts of France, the areas of the Vendee. The Loire river was called the Government Bathtub, wherein thousands, many couples joined with rope went for permanent baths thrown off boats.
Villages there, including the one where we lived, were depopulated down to most living things gone save for wolves, rats and carrion loving critters.